PT-2014-2016 · Videolan+1 · Vlc Media Player+1

Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2014-1684

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC Media Player versions prior to 2.1.3

Description The issue is related to errors in number handling in the ASF ReadObject file properties function. Exploitation of this issue can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a specially crafted ASF file, potentially leading to a divide-by-zero error and crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.1.3, update to version 2.1.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of ASF files with zero minimum and maximum data packet size until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1110

BDU:2019-03979

CVE-2014-1684

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc Media Player

References · 20

• 🔥 http://elsherei.com/?p=269 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/31429 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=98787d0843612271e99d62bee0dfd8197f0cf404 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10482 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1684 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44892734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03979 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1110 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1684 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1684 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-1684 · Vendor Advisory